10 20. 1830.

THE IMPORTANCE

OF

EDUCATING THE INFANT

POOR,

FROM THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN MONTHS,

TO SEVEN YEARS.

CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE

SPITALFIELDS INFANT SCHOOL,

AND THE

NEW SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTION

THERE ADOPTED.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

A REPLY TO THE STRICTURES OF DR. POLE, AND THOSE OF THE
EDINBURGH REVIEW, RESPECTING THE AUTHOR'S
MODE OF MANAGING THE CHILDREN.

BY S. WILDERSPIN,

Master of the above School.

SECOND EDITION,

WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS.

"Whoso shall receive one such little child in my
name receiveth me." Matt. xviii. 5.

"Take heed that ye despise not one of these little
ones.". Matt, xviii. 10.

ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR W. SIMPKIN & R. MARSHALL,
Stationers' Hall Court, Ludgate Street, and Sold
by THE AUTHOR, at the Infant School,
Quaker Street, Spitalfields.

Goyder, Printer, 415, Strand.